August 20, 2025
The School Board now faces a pivotal choice: strengthen Downtown’s resurgence or contribute to its decline.…
July 22, 2025
THE JAXSON | 5 restaurants coming to Downtown
A crop of new restaurants under construction have the potential to turn Downtown Jacksonville into the hottest dining destination in…
February 25, 2025
THE JAXSON | How a skate park was built under a bridge
This is the story of how the Artist Walk Skate Park under the Fuller Warren Bridge was born.…
February 4, 2025
THE JAXSON | When Jacksonville became a Super Bowl city
These are the lasting effects on Jacksonville of hosting the Super Bowl in 2005.…
January 28, 2025
THE JAXSON | How Downtown’s train station was saved
This is the story of the Station Celebration, a forgotten dispatch that rallied thousands of Jaxsons together to help save…
November 20, 2024
OPINION | It’s time for the Laura Street Trio’s owner to bow out
There’s one constant in each of the failed plans, false starts and continued deterioration of the Trio over the years:…
February 20, 2024
OPINION | Southbank storage units are a bad deal
After repeated attempts, against significant community opposition, a self-storage proposal for a prime corner in Downtown’s Southbank is back.…
January 16, 2024
OPINION | Changing the urban landscape in 2024
In 2024, here are four trends that could permanently change urban Jacksonville for the better.…
August 30, 2023
OPINION | Time to cut bait on JTA’s driverless Skyway replacement
There are other options for public transit that are cheaper, carry more passengers and are available right now. …
July 18, 2023
OPINION | The Downtown jail fallacy
It’s possible to create a much more active and vibrant Downtown Jacksonville even without moving the jail.…
June 27, 2023
THE JAXSON | 5 sites from LGBTQ history in Jax’s Urban Core
Jacksonville’s LGBTQ history has always been rich and colorful, if often overlooked. Here’s a tour of five sites across the…
December 21, 2021
OPINION | What Shad Khan gets right – and wrong – about Downtown
Jaguars owner Shad Khan recently criticized the progress of Downtown revitalization in Jacksonville, saying the area has “gone downhill” over…
November 23, 2021
OPINION | What hotels can do for Downtown vibrancy
A new Home2 Suites in Brooklyn is the latest hotel project moving forward in Downtown Jacksonville. With more hotels in…
November 16, 2021
OPINION | 5 infrastructure bill projects Jacksonville should pursue
President Joe Biden finally signed his hard-fought $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law on Monday, November 15.…
November 2, 2021
THE JAXSON | Can townhomes plug Jax housing’s ‘missing middle’?
Two new projects in LaVilla and San Marco are creating something in short supply in Jacksonville: urban townhomes. Can they…
October 26, 2021
OPINION | Why Amtrak should be on Jacksonville’s radar
Jacksonville stands to be a major beneficiary over the next 15 years as Amtrak plans to add service across the…
October 20, 2021
OPINION | One Riverside and how to activate an urban sidewalk
One Riverside Avenue, the development planned to replace the former Florida Times-Union headquarters, will likely be up for final site…